Electric safety clothes wringer



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Filed Sept. 9, 1931 MN QR NW Patented Nov. 8, 1982 GLAEENGE "a l. PERRY, QF-EDGE'WATER, COLORADO ELEGTRIG SAFETY CLOT WIRINGER Application filed September 9, 1991. Serial No. 561,937.

This invention relates to a safety clothes vringer.

An object of my invention is the construction of a simple and eficient wringer which will greatly minimize the liability of the user being injured.

Another object of the invention is the construction of adjustable safety shields, which prevent the hands from coming in, contact 19 with rollers; my adjustable safety shields are used particularly when wringing heavy articles.

A still'further object of the invention is the construction of a wringer which is provided with a revolving brush that prevents articles from wrapping around or becoming entangled on upper roller of the apparatus.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, my invention comprises certain novel constructions, combinations and arrangements of parts as will be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a vertical, central, longitudinal sectional view of an apparatus constructed in accordance with the present invention.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of .part of the apparatus showing one of the safety shields broken away.

Figure 3 is an end view of the apparatus partly shown in vertical section and partly shown in elevation. t

Figure 4: is a view in elevation of one of the bearing devices.

Figure 5 is an enlarged, fragmentary sectional view of one of the rollers.

Figure 6 is a fragmentary end view of another embodiment of my invention, shown partly insection and partly in elevation, and

particularly illustrating a stationary brush.

Figure 7 is an enlarged, fragmentary top plan view of the apparatus, showing particu larly one of the bearing housings.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, 1

- designates the casing, which is provided with side brackets 2, for attaching my wringer to any type of a washing machine. It will be obvious that the brackets may be of any size the bearing devices 9 (Fig. 4)- Each bearing device 9 is provided with a bearing opening 10 formed in its lower end and with a central opening 11 formed in its middle. Tn

opening 11 is positioned an adjustable roller bearing block 12 and which block is supported upon a coil spring 13; the spring 13 bears at its upper end against the under face of block 12 with its lower end seated in a socket 14:, as clearly shown in Figure 3. A screw 15 extends through the top of bearing device 9, against, the top of block 12, whereby the spring pressed block can be adjusted within the opening 11. Mounted in blocks 12 are the ends of shaft 16 carrying the water proof composition bristle brush 17 A. shaft 18 has its ends bearing against the bearing openings 10 of bearing device 15, and on shaft 18 is mounted the central upper roller 19. This roller 19 is bevelled at 20, so that the flanges 5 on the lower roller do not engage this upper roller 19. The rubber coated conveyor belt 21 passes over roller 4a between its flanged ends and is also positioned around end rollers 22. These rollers are provided with detachable shafts 23 (Fig. 5) for permitting easy assembling of the apparatus. At the right hand end of the apparatus, I provide bolts 24, threaded upon brackets 25 and pressing against the right hand shaft 23, whereby the conveyor belt 21 can be tightened.

A spring housing 26 is hingedly mounted at one end, at 27, and is provided with a catch 28 at its other end, hooking over stud 29 (Fig. 3) whereby the housing is secured in position upon the casing 1. In this housing 26 is positioned a tension or bowed spring 30 that presses at its ends against the top of in proper position.

- tension or pressure of spring 30.

On shafts 16 and 18 are fixedly secured pulleys 31. These pulleys are arranged in vertical alignment, in one of the guideways 8 of one of the housings 4. A suitable belt 32 is on pulleys 31 (Fig. 3) whereby when the roller 19 is rotated through contact with the travelling conveyor belt 21, the rotary brush will be actuated in an opposite direction from the main top roller, and thereby prevent articles from wrapping around or becoming tangled on the roller 19.

In Figure 6, I have shown a stationary brush 17a, carried by shaft 16a which has no pulley 31. Consequently, this type of a brush is cheaper to manufacture, but will prevent the clothes from wrapping around or becoming tangled upon the upper central roller 19.

I provide two adjustable safety shields 33, 33, which prevent the hands frcm coming in contact with rollers when wringing heavy articles. Each shield 33 has side flanges 34 that overlap a part of the sides of the casing 1. Extending through these side flanges 34 are bolts 35 that are provided with nuts onv the outside whereby the shields are detachably mounted upon the casing. In the sides of the casing 1 are slots 36 in which are positioned bolts 37 carried by theside flanges 34 of the shield. On these bolts are nuts 38 whereby the shields can be held in adjusted, raised positions at their outer ends upon the casing 1, as indicated by dotted lines A,

Fig. 4. This adjustment of these resilient shields 33 allows of different thicknesses or weights of articles to be passed through the apparatus, during the wringing process. The shields prevent the operators hand from coming in contact with the wringing rollers, as well as allow the articles to freely pass through the machine, upon the conveyor belt. It will be seen that I have provided adjustable shields that are detachably mounted, and which have their outer ends capable of opening up to accomplish the result above specified. These shields also have their outer ends capable of being raised and lowered.

It is to be noted that the pulleys 31 can be arranged on their supporting shafts at either side of the apparatus, in either one of the guideways 8.

When power in any suitable way is imparted to preferably the right hand end of shaft 3 (Fig. 2) for rotating the same, the conveyor belt 21 is rotated, which has frictional contact with roller 4a, resulting in said roller being rotated, whereby the clothes to be wrung, will be carried between the spring pressed rollers 4a and 19. The tension on all the rollers including the brushing assays? roller 17 will be controlled bythe tension spring 30.

A suitable receptacle can be placed adjacent to one end of the apparatus for receiving the wrung clot-hes that have passed from the washing machine, through the wringing apparatus.

It is to be understood that the conveyor belt is held between the flanged ends of the lower central roller, without said flanged ends injuring the upper central pressing roller, and that the safety shields are directly above the conveyor belt with means associated therewith for allowing an expansion so to speak to take place, whereby articles of varying weights or thicknesses can pass freely into and out of the machine.

While I have described the preferred embodiments of my invention and illustrated the same in the accompanying drawings, certain minor changes or alterations may appear to one skilled in the art to which this invention relates during the extensive manufacture of the same, and I, therefore, reserve the right to make such changes or alterations as shall fairly fall within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim is:

1. In a safety clothes wringer, the combination of a'casing, a conveyor wringer mechanism in said casing, adjustable safety shields on said casing above said wringer mechanism, means on the sides of said casing and shields for holding said shields in adjusted positions, and brushing means on said casing and operating upon said conveyor wringer mechanism.

2. In a safety clothes wringer, the combination of a casing provided with wringing means, adjustable shields upon said casing above said wringing means, means on said casing and shields for holding said shields in adjusted positions, and brushing means 'in said casing and acting upon said wringing means.

3. ,In a safety clothes wringer, the combination of a casing provided with wringing means, safety shields on said casing above said wringing means, each shield provided with-side flanges extending down upon said casing, means extending through the casing and the inner ends of said side flanges for securing the shields upon said casing, said cas ng'provided with slots contiguous to said side flanges, means carried by said side flanges and working in said slots for retaining the outer ends of the sheilds in an adjusted position upon said casing, and said casing provided with brushing means between said safety shields and co-operating with said wringing means.

4. In a safety clothes wringer, the combination of a casing provided with wringing means, a pair of safety shields over said casing above said wringing means, each shield weave? provided with side flanges overlapping portions of the sides of said casing, detachable fastening means extending through the sides of said casing and the inner ends of said side flanges, said casing provided at said side flanges with slots, bolts in said side flanges and working in said slots, nuts on said bolts for holding the same in adjusted positions upon said casing, and brushing means on said casing between said shields.

5. In a safety clothes wringer, the combination of a casing provided with side bearing housings, each housing provided with two guideways, bearing devices in some of said guideways, shafts extending into said hearing housings, some of said shafts engaging said bearing devices, said shafts provided with rollers, end rollers on said casing, an endless belt over said end rollers and over one of the rollers carried by said shafts, one of the rollers carried by said shafts provided with a brush, some of said shafts provided with pulleys inone of the guideways of said bearing housings, a belt over said pulleys, and means 8. In a safety clothes wringer, the c0mbination of a casing provided with an endless belt and a central roller, a pressure roller carried by said casing above said central roller and in engagement with said belt, safety shields on said casing above said belt, a rotary brush on said casing engaging said pressure roller, and tension means carried by said casing and exerting pressure on said rotary brush, pressure roller and central roller.

9. In a safety clothes wringer, the combina tion of a casing, safety shields on said casing, means on said casing and. shields near their inner ends for holding same in a fixed position, means on said casing and shields near their outer ends for securing said shields in adjusted positions, and wringing means on said casing below said shields.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afix my signature. Y

GLARENCE N. PERRY.

exerting spring pressure on' said rollers carried by said shafts. I

6. In a safety clothes wringer, the combination of a casing provided at opposite sides with similarly constructed bearing housings,

attaching brackets extending outwardly from one of said bearing housings, bearin devices in said housings, a pressure roller s aft and a brush shaft extending into said bearing devices, pulleys on said shaft within one of said housings, a belt on said pulleys within said housing, 'a central roller provided with a shaft having its ends extending into said housings, end rollers on said casing, a conveyor belt over said end rollers and said central roller, and safety shields on said casin above said conveyor belt.

7 In a safety clothes wringer, the combination of a casing provided with side housings, end rollers in said casing, means adjusting one of the rollers, an endless belt over said rollers, a central lower flanged roller on said casing, said belt passing over said last mentioned roller between its flanges, said last mentioned roller having its ends extending into said housings, bearing blocks in said housings under said ends, a pressure roller above said belt and having its ends extending into said side housings, bearing devices in said side housings and bearing at their lower ends against the ends of said pressure roller, a brush provided with a shaft extending at its ends into said bearing devices, meansin one of 7 said housings and connecting the shaft of said brush and the shaft of said pressure roller for rotating the same when the machine is in operation, and manually controlled HUD 

